Religie residentieel nonnen 25 Augustus 2006 03:20:24
Een misschien wel knap ingewikkelde uitspraak in N-Zeeland. De eeuwige achterstand van van het gestichtskind: ze was al kapot voor ze bij ons kwam.....nu kennelijk overgenomen door een rechter. Welke tegelijkertijd niet uitsluit dat er een grond van waarheid zit in de beschuldigingen, maar de bewijslast ontbreekt. En arme nonnen.....
Er zit vooralsnog een knap visluchtje in ieder geval aan dit artikel.
Niet onwaarschijnlijk opnieuw andere vrouwen (en mannen) in problemen door de gebruikte argumenten. Hoelang duurt het nog voor dat ook dat deel kan uitmaken van de informatie.
Dan kunnen dergelijke opmerkingen over die arme nonnen met hun stress en hun benodigde therapie tenminste realistisch worden. Want nú, in combinatie met die generous providing homes ...yeah.... Hoewel er een grond van waarheid niet uitgesloten geacht kan worden mist dát ieder geval iedere bewijskracht.
Dergelijke dankbaarheidsheidschantage vanuit een burgerlijke rechtbank is zonder meer schandalig!
Die nonnen deden hun werk en kozen daar vrijwillig voor. Vonden ze kennelijk plezierig en werden hiervoor betaald door de overheid, verantwoordelijk voor deze kinderen.
Hoog tijd om met dit soort chanterende onzin op te houden! Dat heeft in ieder geval meer dan genoeg slachtoffers gemaakt. Die nonnen hebben tenslotte ook geen dank je wel gezegd tegen deze kinderen, die zij net zo hard nodig hadden voor de idealen die zij hadden!
Maar, tadadaadaaaaaaa
in de VS is voor de allereerste keer een claim toegekend voor sexueel misbruik in een justitiele kinderbeschermings tehuis en scholen van de Zusters van Liefde van Nazareth. Zorg-ontvangers, meer dan 20 in deze claim, misbruikt door de inpandige kapelaan van het tehuis.
Anderen door verschillende nonnen en 2 leken.
Hulde aan de moed van deze vrouwen. Heel wat van hen zijn al heel lang bezig. Hopelijk komen hierdoor ook anderen over hun drempels van angst en schaamte om hun mond open te doen over wat hen als kind is aangedaan En inspireert dit resultaat andere vrouwen die net als zij al zo lang bezig zijn tot vólhouden!
Orphanage abuse claim rejected
12 August 2006
A woman who sued Catholic nuns for $550,000 claiming they were negligent in caring for her and thus caused her physical and emotional abuse has lost her case.
In the High Court at Wellington, Justice Marion Frater has rejected claims that the woman, whose name is suppressed, was sexually abused by a priest while at St Joseph's Orphanage Upper Hutt. She had also claimed a nun slapped the side of her head so hard that her eardrum burst.
Some discipline and control at the orphanage was "borderline – and certainly unacceptable by today's standards", but at the time it was seen as an excellent standard of care, Justice Frater said.
However, she said she did not believe the woman, 46, a mother of two living in Australia, had deliberately made up allegations about her time in Catholic care in the 1960s and 70s.
"I accept most if not all her allegations have a basis in fact."
Justice Frater had no doubt the woman was sexually abused, but could not be sure of the details.
She could not be certain which of the woman's memories were soundly based and which were not.
The woman had been volatile giving evidence, often screaming so much that the court had to adjourn.
The judge rejected a claim from the woman's sister that she had been "exorcised" at the orphanage.
Some of the people accused in the case of having committed various forms of abuse are now having counselling for stress.
Former director of Catholic Social Services John Consedine, a counsellor, said yesterday the stress of being falsely accused had taken its toll on people who had been generous providing homes for young children.
"I think she has had a very unfortunate life and had awful trauma, but what we believe is that it was not our fault and we did not contribute to it."
The nuns' spokeswoman, Sister Clare Vaughan, said the period since 2001, when the woman filed her claim, had been a time of anxiety for all the sisters. They were relieved the case was over.
Justice Frater found the woman's troubled childhood – she and her six siblings were put into care when her parents separated – was a significant contributor to her current mental state. That early fragility probably influenced her later experiences.
But Justice Frater said Catholic Social Services took adequate steps to address her needs, and given the lack of knowledge about the signs of sexual abuse,they could not be criticised for failing to recognise that she may have been abused.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3762930a12855,00.html
Sisters of Charity settle 45 abuse suits for $1.5 million
By Peter Smith
psmith@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
An order of Catholic nuns based in Nelson County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle lawsuits by 45 plaintiffs who alleged they were sexually abused at orphanages and schools.
The settlement ends the bulk of two years of litigation involving the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
The plaintiffs alleged they were abused as children at orphanages and schools supervised by the nuns between the 1930s and 1970s. More than 20 of the plaintiffs accused a priest who was a longtime orphanage chaplain, and others accused several nuns and two laymen.
Attorneys Jennifer Kincaid Adams, representing the Sisters of Charity, and William McMurry, representing the plaintiffs, confirmed they had agreed to the settlement. But McMurry added that it needs to be completed with delivery of the check from the order, scheduled for Friday.
Under the agreement, the Sisters of Charity did not acknowledge any guilt, but the order did agree not to use the term “alleged victims” but rather “plaintiffs.”
Two other plaintiffs represented by a different lawyer did not participate in the settlement, Adams said. Their cases remain pending.
Adams said the nuns “are relieved and very comforted to have this behind them so that the healing process for their community, the plaintiffs and the church as a whole can begin.”
McMurry said the settlement marks “the first time in United States history any victims of a Catholic orphanage have recovered (a payment due to) childhood sexual abuse.”
He said all other cases have been dismissed on the grounds they were filed too long after the alleged abuse.
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